Life — November 21, 1901 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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‘“THROUOM LIFE LIKE TI Was DOING MY euARE.” . ? AND TOU DOING POUR-PIPTHS OF THE WORK, JACK? I WOULDN'T PEEL THAT “SUPPOSE WE RAN INTO SOMETHING. WHO WOULD GET Most HURT?" “1, No Dousr.” “THEN, IP 1 SUPPLY POUR-PIPTHS OP TUE STRENGTH, YOU TAKE POUR-FIPTUS OF THE RISK. THAT SEEMS CAN'T YOU THINK 80, Lucy?" To ME A PAIR rRorosiTioN. way of becoming confused and unnatural even to the point of dropping dead in the last act. The capacity for detail and for general effect rarely co-exist in the same mind, and Mr. Fitch possesses the former to an extent which makes it not remarkable that the big bones of his creations do not fit together so as to make perfect skeletons. “The Way of the World” was written to give Miss Elsie de Wolfe a star part. Her managers have been kind enough not to subordinate everything else to the ambi- 413 tions of the star. Therefore, Mrs. Clara Bloodgood has op- Portunity to score quite as suc- cessfully as Miss de Wolfe. The support throughout is very good and the company has received an excellent schooling in polite manners. “The Way of the World” is interesting as a study of certain phases of contemporary life and is bound to be popular even with those whose doings it mirrors. Metcalfe. LIFE'S CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE TO THE THEATRES, Academy of Muste. East.” Broadway.—"The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast." The most Rorgeous of spectacies with amus- ing acting, Bijou.—David Warfield as Lect Cohen. An excellent character portrayal Daly's. — James T. Powers in The Messenger Boy.” Musical comedy, fairly diverting. Herald Square,—""The New York- ers.” Musical comedy with local allusions, Good of its kind. Empire —Mr. John Drew seems fated te be perpetually * The Second tn Command.” Agreeable com- edy. Knickerbocker. — Maude Adams, See opposite. Lyceum.—Annie Russell in “A Royal Family.” Amusing satire, well done. Garrick. —"A Message from Mars." Eccentric bat clever play very well presented. Fourteenth Stret.—“New Eng- land Folks.” Rural play with more plot than usual, Worth sectog. Garden. — “It 1 Were King."* Scholarly play, well staged and well acted by E. Hl, Sothern and competent company. Manhattan. — "Miranda of the Balcony, with Mrs. Fiske as Afi- anda, Arlstic and loteresting. Madison Square.— Amusing " Liberty Belles.” Pretty girls and pretty music. Republic.—Grace George in “Under Southern Skies." Notice later. Saroy.—E. M. Holland tn dramatiza- tion ot “Eben Holden.” Moderately Interesting. Victoria." The Way of the World," Notice opposite. Wallack*s, — Augustus Thomas's “Colorado.” Notice later. Weber and Fields's Muste Halt.—Bill now in- cludes burlesque of ‘A Message from Mars.'* Buyers of seats beld up as usual. Way Down comicbooks.com